Life Quotes

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A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.
G. H. Hardy
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
Anthony Trollope
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There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything both ways save us from thinking.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.
Elie Wiesel, O Magazine, November 2000
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
La Bruyere
If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
Chinese Prove
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Lin Yutang
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922
I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.
Homer, The Iliad
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel (1856)
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Kahlil Gibran
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Jean - Paul Sartre
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
Erich Fromm
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
Adele Brookman
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.
Hendrik W. Van Loon
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
Elizabeth II
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adle
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language.... We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a common goal of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
George Bernard Shaw
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson
In the next year or so, my signature will appear on 60 billion of United States currency. More important to me, however, is the signature that appears on my life - The strong, proud, assertive handwriting of a loving father and mother.
Katherine D. Ortega
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai E. Stevenson, J
Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.
Eric Edmeades, Editor, Success Express Journal (circa 1996)
My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - - In fact, mostly - - At the expense of everything else in my life.
Stan Getz
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
Robert F. Bennett
Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.
Albert Einstein
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost